The Big Wedding Reviews

Built on chaotically disparate tones and extremely broad jokes that never hit their mark, The Big Wedding is completely devoid of laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

What it desperately needed was more originality. I suppose Zackham thought that if he just got a great cast and sprinkled enough humor into it, then those would be enough to cover up all the flaws in the script. Unfortunately, he was very much mistaken.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Pure claw-your-eyes-out cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Their idea of a minority is, in all seriousness, a British dude painted orange.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

At least somebody does fall in the swimming pool. It's Robert De Niro. Unfortunately, he resurfaces.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

While it's nice to see talents like Keaton and Sarandon in The Big Wedding, it's ultimately frustrating seeing their talents wasted in Zackham's paper-thin excuse for a rom-com.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

This is not so much Meet The Fockers as meet the shockers. The jokes are something old, nothing new, mainly borrowed and sadly blue. De Niro is a shadow of his former shelf, not so much Taxi Driver as taxidermy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10

Many Hollywood films are founded on privilege, but few are as open and nasty about their racism, misogyny, and homophobia. It's a feel-good movie for people who only comfortable around people who look and act just like them.

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The movie is bland hackwork; its crime isn't incompetence, but indifference.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Barring a few off-color jokes, though, the movie feels like a Carol Burnett sketch dragged out to feature length.

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Sadly, superior talent can propel a movie only so far. Bad scripts beget bad movies, even when four Academy Award winners are involved.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Yet another comedy about a wacky weekend wedding for wealthy WASPs.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.7/10

With De Niro inexcusably using what is for many people the single most obscene swear word, this is well off target.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Absolutely every character ends the movie on an upbeat note, proving that weddings are the best situations for solving peoples' problems.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

You'll run out of appendages on which to count the clichés.

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It's tired and dated with too few laughs to justify the stultifying attempts at drama and the impossible-to-swallow plot contortions.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

This is an American movie trying, strenuously, to "swing" a little. The slapstick is broad and generally awkward.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

As bland as a box of beige rocks.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

If we're going to continue to make French comedies into American films, then we must insist France write something original. Please.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

When Robert DeNiro says things like "poon job," it hurts our ears and probably leaves a bad taste in his mouth.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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